Labour will set up ‘young futures’ youth programme to tackle knife crime

Yvette Cooper will announce scheme that will also offer mental health support

Yvette Cooper will set up a 100m tough love" youth programme to help tackle a knife crime epidemic and a mental health crisis among UK teenagers if Labour is elected, she will announce.

On Tuesday, the shadow home secretary will tell the Labour party conference in Liverpool that the young futures" programme will target 92 communities under a Keir Starmer-led government that are blighted by youth crime and violence.